#306 - The Double Murder of Annie Curtin (Annie & William Curtin, Soho, W1)

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Ep306: The Double Murder of Annie Curtin.

The tragic life of Annie Curtin is one that you will have never heard of before, and yet, it’s unnervingly familiar. She was an ordinary woman, a wife and a mother, living a regular life who deserved the right to live unharmed and unhurt. Frustratingly, there were laws put in place to protect her, but witnessing failure after failure after failure, many of those same laws are as unfit today as they’ve always been.

Date: Sunday the 10th of May 1931 at just 8am (rough time of attempted murder)
Location: Second Floor, 11 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, UK, W1
Victim: 1 (Alice Annie Curtin, nee Hailey)
Culprits: 1 (William James Curtin)

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1:22.9	Today, I'm standing outside of 11 Old Compton Street in Soho, W1.
1:28.8	The same street as Edith McQwaite and the Black Cap Fars, Dutch Leia and the Soho Strangler,
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